STOCKARD: Expedite Jefferson Pike job

5:46 PM,
Mar. 18, 2013

Written by

Sam Stockard

Not long after I started working at The DNJ (shortly after the turn of the last century it seems), the Tennessee Department of Transportation held a meeting at Walter Hill School to discuss the construction of state Route 840.

At the time, I was living in Nashville and someone told me that instead of driving back to Murfreesboro to get on I-24, I could take a road called Jefferson Pike to Smyrna and then get on Sam Ridley Parkway to reach the interstate.

They were right, but as I started down the road that night, I started to doubt those directions because I thought I'd dropped off the face of the Earth ...